Here's a playlist of good David Bowie songs that I had never heard until after he died last week. Spotify playlist YouTube links: Dead Against It (1993) Up The Hill Backwards (1980) Move On (1979) Dancing With The Big Boys (1984) (with Iggy Pop) I Would Be Your Slave (2002) Girl Loves Me (2016) You've… Continue reading Bowie
Category: Non-Work
Perl 6
I see the official release of the Perl 6 language specification happened on Christmas day. The first piece of commercial web development I did was in Perl 5. A lot of people can probably say the same thing. This one was a content-management system led by James Elson in 1999 at PSWeb Ltd, a small… Continue reading Perl 6
Replacing the GNOME Shell font in GNOME 3.16
[Edit: see the comment by Hugo Roy after the article, describing a much simpler, more "official" way to achieve this] When using Linux on a touchscreen laptop, I generally use the GNOME 3 desktop — logical design, big touch targets, good support for high-resolution displays, nice to look at. While I mostly approve of the… Continue reading Replacing the GNOME Shell font in GNOME 3.16
How to change your friend’s OS/X Yosemite system font to Arial
Apple made a lot of visual changes in release 10.10 ("Yosemite") of Mac OS/X. One of the most obvious was to change the system font, as used throughout the desktop, from Lucida to Helvetica. A lot of people love Helvetica, so presumably they were happy. Others were less satisfied, leading to a little rush of… Continue reading How to change your friend’s OS/X Yosemite system font to Arial
Alte Schönhauser Straße
In 1992, while I was an undergraduate at Bath university, I went to Berlin for an industrial placement year. I had started out registered for a 3-year maths degree without a placement, but there was a scheme you could apply to if you changed your mind and fancied going abroad in the middle of it.… Continue reading Alte Schönhauser Straße
Comparative advantage
One of my favourite ideas from economics (a subject I know very little about) is that of comparative advantage, a theory that shows how two countries can trade to mutual advantage even if one of them is better at everything than the other is. A fairly clear example is described here.What I like about this… Continue reading Comparative advantage
The Breakfast Post 